The Norwegian painter, novelist, and social critic Christian Krohg
(1852-1925) is best known for creating highly political paintings
of workers, prostitutes, and Skagen fishermen of the 1880s and for
serving as a mentor to Edvard Munch. One of the Nordic countries'
most avant-garde naturalist artists, Krohg was influenced by French
thinkers such as Emile Zola, Claude Bernard, and Hippolyte Taine,
and he shocked the provincial sensibilities of his time. His work
reached beyond the art world when his book Albertine and its
related paintings were banned upon publication. Telling the story
of a young seamstress who turns to a life of prostitution, it
galvanized support for outlawing prostitution in Norway-but Krohg
was also punished for the work's sexual content. Examining the
theories of Krohg and his fellow naturalists and their reception in
Scandinavian intellectual circles, Oystein Sjastad places Krohg in
an international perspective and reveals his striking contribution
to European naturalism. In the process, Christian Krohg's
Naturalism provides an unparalleled account of Krohg's art.
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